Short-time mentoring - enhancing female medical students' intentions toward surgical careers

CONCLUSION: For the first time we could show that short-mentoring and demonstrating role models in a seminar surrounding has a significant impact on female medical student decision´s to pursue a career in a surgery speciality. This concept may be a practical and efficient concept to refine the gender disparity in surgery and related disciplines.PMID:38696113 | PMC:PMC11067559 | DOI:10.1080/10872981.2024.2347767

Source: Medical Education Online - May 2, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: J C Mossanen M Schmidt A Br ücken M Thommes G Marx S Sopka Source Type: research